Jeremy Cowart is a contemporary artist based in the US. His work spans fine art, nfts, photography, social movements, humanitarian efforts, iphone apps, hospitality, augmented reality, performance art and more.
AURAS
AURAS is a project where Cowart created 10,000 completely unique portraits in a span of 20 minutes start to finish in front of a live and online audience. It was also the first time he revealed his creative process for the world to see. View
Block Queens
Block Queens is Cowart’s first major NFT project and one of the first projects to combine numerous art mediums into one generative collection. Each of the 999 Block Queens is fully interactive, allowing the viewer to zoom in and out, fully exploring each of the 11 layers in each and every Block Queen. View
Lightographs
Cowart coined the term “Lightograph”, which means the “evolution of light through a still photograph”. It is not a video or a photo but a patent-pending technique in which the viewer can control the analog light in the portrait with their finger or cursor. Cowart has minted just a few select Lightograph NFTs to date on SuperRare. View
The Purpose Hotel
In 2015, Cowart went public with a Kickstarter to build the world’s first social good hotel called “The Purpose Hotel”, where everything inside the building is connected to causes and non-profits around the world. It’s been a long journey, like surviving a pandemic, but Cowart has a brand new team of partners and they are pushing forward daily on this much needed project. View
60 Seconds
At the end of 2022, Cowart realized how efficient his process and techniques were so he started offering 60-second photoshoots to the public. He typically shoots up to 200 portraits in 1 minute with every single portrait having completely unique results. He has now done hundreds of shoots using this process. View
The Soul is Soil
The Soul is Soil is Cowart’s very first foray into the world of NFT’s before he even understood the space. At 40 works total, this series is a collection of dance photographs, with everything captured in camera and no post work involved. This series is considered Cowart’s true OG NFT project. View
Summer Sun
Summer Sun was Cowart’s first collab with Quantum Art , RED Dao and 5 other well known NFT artists. With Cowart’s 15 fashion portraits included, the collection’s goal was to emphasize how fashion continues to define self-expression in web3 and beyond. View
A Year in Portraits
A Year in Portraits was a project Cowart shot at 3 NFT conferences throughout 2022. With over 500 subjects included like Mark Cuban and Spike Lee, Cowart captured celebrities and NFT influencers in this historic and comprehensive look at Web3 in a wildly pivotal year. AYIP was dropped as an end of year free mint collectors item. View
TIME / Timbaland
In 2022, Cowart, along with 13 other artists, was invited by TIMEPieces to collaborate with legendary hip hop producer Timbaland to create a NFT to go with one of his unique beats. This unique collection sold out and is now available on secondary. View
A Quiet Life
A Quiet Life was Cowart’s first ever 1/1 that was sold to a private collector in January of 2022. This work combines over 80 layers of photographs utilizing Cowart's patent-pending "Lightograph" technique. This is only the 2nd piece Cowart has ever created in this style. View
Manic
“Manic” is a forthcoming, unreleased self-portrait NFT project that Cowart created in January of 2023. At 23 works total, these works combine painting, digital art, photography, acrylic, charcoal, Cowart’s patent-pending Lightograph technique and generative code. View
Black Lives Matter
In 2020, just after the murder of George Floyd, Cowart invited the black community into his studio to express themselves through art. Victims of police violence were projected in front of each subject with their own art or expressions projected behind them and onto their bodies. View
Lightollages
Cowart coined the term “Lightollage” because these are portraits that combine multiple lighting angles within the exact same still image. This effect is not possible with post-production without having the analog data to work with. View
Portraits
In between all of these larger projects, Cowart’s day job is portraiture. Celebrities, fashion, editorial, advertising, album covers, TV, Film, he’s had experience doing all of it. This gallery features some of his favorite portraits to date. View
Art
This collection features many of Cowart’s experimentations that have never been seen before. Gifs, drawings, paintings, videos and misc photoshop experiments. View
I’m Possible
In 2015, Cowart decided to launch his life story as an illustrated time-lapse video. The 25-minute video went viral with millions of views and landed Cowart a book deal and a speaking career. He has now shared his life story across the country to tens of thousands in person… from elementary schools to stadiums and everything in between. View
Resilient Light
In 2017 after some devastating hurricanes struck Florida, Cowart wondered if he could turn devastating scenes into beauty with 100% of the profit from resulting print sales helping the devastated. He did so by using a pixel stick (imagine holograms) to project words of hope over the scenes in the middle of the night. The project went on to raise good money for those who lost their homes. View
Help-Portrait
In 2008, before social media, Cowart used a blogging network to spread a very simple idea: Find people in need. Take their photos. Print their photos. And give them away. He called it Help-Portrait, which became a global movement spanning 80+ countries and millions of portraits. Help-Portrait continues to this day around the world. View
Love Transported
During the height of the pandemic in 2020, Cowart decided to take his work virtual and do social-distancing portraits. He ended up shooting thousands of new friends in over 40 countries and every American state throughout the pandemic. He would essentially project zoom calls onto canvas in his studio and then photograph the canvas with his DSLR once he directed his subjects virtually. View
Be Unafraid
Around 2018, when the refugee debate was raging, Cowart decided to bring together refugees and those who were adamant against them to have face to face discussions for both sides to listen and learn. Cowart asked all participants to write out their most pressing questions for him to photograph. The goal was to spark critical conversations in our communities between immigrants, refugees and Americans. View
Enneagraphs
In 2021, Cowart invented what he called “personality-based lighting”. He took the wildy popular Enneagram personality test and invented 9 different lighting styles around the 9 different character types: the perfectionist, helper, achiever, individualist, investigator, loyalist, enthusiast, challenger and peace-maker. (Archived)
OKDOTHIS
Debuting at the top of the App Store, Cowart’s iPhone app OKDOTHIS is a tragic story about an amazing idea too soon. It was TikTok a decade before TikTok. He had the idea before Instagram existed. Ironically, the current marketing director at Instagram recently tweeted this in late 2022 about OKDOTHIS: “This was an idea way ahead of it’s time.” (Archived)
POZA Project
In 2015, Cowart traveled to Uganda with Exile International and collaborated with former child soldiers who had been forced into war. He worked with them to tell their own stories through photography and art and then created mixed media pieces from their own stories to make finished pieces for art. 100% of the funds raised were used to further the children’s art therapy. View
Liminal Society
In 2021, Cowart realized that every project and idea basically follows the same 7-step formula: Brainstorm, Conceptualize, Personalize, Verify, Plan, Do and Launch. So he spent the entire year building an education platform around this framework that now exists as an 8-hour+ education series. More info at LMNL.so.
Voices of Gatlinburg
In 2015, devastating fires struck Gatlinburg, TN. Cowart responded by doing a fundraising project to tell the story using drones and a white mattress to provide a stark visual contrast to the destroyed homes, with the homeowners laying on the mattress. The project went on to raise funds and was featured by TIME Magazine. View
Voices of Haiti
After the 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti on January 12th of 2010, Cowart was deeply moved to respond. The media wasn’t sharing personal stories, just the stats. So Cowart decided to respond with an art project of his own, using found rubble and social media to spread personal stories by simply asking the victims what they wanted to say to the world. This project went viral and was featured in the halls of the United Nations. View
Voices of Reconciliation
In 2014, Cowart traveled to Rwanda to document survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide standing WITH the killers of their family, often times at the scene of the crime. The goal was to show the remarkable levels of forgiveness taking place in this region. This project became a worldwide main featured story on CNN. View